THE DIAPHRAGM is a muscular sheet that separates the chest cavity (containing the heart, lungs, esophagus and other organs) from the abdominal cavity (containing the stomach, large and small intestine ...

February 15, 2012 — High-resolution manometry has a high specificity (95.12%) as well as a high predictive value (91.6%) for type 1 sliding hiatal hernia in patients with gastroesophageal reflux ...

As a gastroenterologist, I’ve learned that many patients misunderstand a common finding, the hiatal hernia. There are two basic types of hiatal hernia. Ninety-five percent are of the sliding type, and ...

A hiatal hernia is when your stomach bulges up into your chest through an opening in your diaphragm, the muscle that separates the two areas. This opening is called the hiatus, so this condition is ...

With sliding or axial hiatal hernia there is thinning and elongation of the phrenoesophageal membrane leading to herniation of the stomach into the posterior mediastinum. As such, there is no ...

A hernia hiatus occurs when the part of the stomach starts to squeeze through the diaphragm and then into the chest. The ...

Despite the scene in Friends where Joey develops an agonizing hernia, not all hernias are painful. A hiatal hernia, which affects 50 percent of adults over age 50, won’t often directly cause pain. But ...

A hiatal hernia is when part of your stomach or another organ slips through a hole in your diaphragm, the parachute-like organ above your stomach. Mild hiatal hernias often don’t cause symptoms, while ...

A hiatal hernia, or hiatus hernia, happens when the upper part of your stomach pushes up into your chest through an opening in your diaphragm called the hiatus, the muscle that separates your abdomen ...

During this interval there were over 3000 admissions to the Thoracic Surgical Section. Twenty-nine patients, or about 1 per cent, had proved peptic esophagitis. Sixty-two patients with diaphragmatic ...

When determining whether a hiatal hernia requires surgery, doctors often consider the symptoms and the type of hernia. Surgery may be recommended if the hernia become large enough that it bulges into ...

In 1959 Bartlett and Jones 4 described 4 patients with the lower esophageal ring operated upon at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In each of these 4 cases a small sliding hiatus hernia was present ...